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James Charles Marshall OBE (29 July 1923 – 5 April 2012) known as The Father of Loud [3] or The Lord of Loud, [4] was an English businessman and pioneer of guitar amplification. His company, Marshall Amplification , founded in 1962, has created equipment that is used by some of the biggest names in rock music, producing amplifiers with an ...
Two control knobs for a heating/cooling system. The left knob controls the temperature while the right controls the fan speed. A control knob is a rotary device used to provide manual input adjustments to a mechanical/electrical system when grasped and turned by a human operator, so that differing extent of knob rotation corresponds to different desired input.
Other inventions related to sound included the automatic volume control (AVC), first commercially available in 1928. [62] In 1930 a tone control knob was added to the radios. This allowed listeners to improve imperfect broadcasting. [63] The magnetic cartridge, which was introduced in the mid 20's, greatly improved the broadcasting of music ...
Pioneer Corporation (パイオニア株式会社, Paionia Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly referred to as Pioneer, is a Japanese multinational corporation based in Tokyo, that specializes in digital entertainment products. The company was founded by Nozomu Matsumoto on January 1, 1938 in Tokyo as a radio and speaker repair shop. Its current ...
Louder notes are played by moving the hand away from the volume antenna. Most frequently, the right hand controls the pitch and the left controls the volume, although some performers reverse this arrangement. Some low-cost theremins use a conventional, knob-operated volume control and have only the pitch antenna.
Pioneer DJ is a brand of DJ products, including media players and DJ software controllers, turntables, DJ mixers, headphones, effects units, and loudspeakers. Originally part of Pioneer Corporation , the company became independent in 2014 as Pioneer DJ Corporation, and has produced numerous industry-standard DJ products. [ 1 ]
On a two-manual (Great and Swell) organ, this will be the Swell division (from where the name comes); on larger organs often part, or all of, the Choir and Solo divisions will be enclosed as well. Enclosure is the term for the device that allows volume control (crescendo and diminuendo) for a manual without the addition or subtraction of stops. [2]
The original "up to eleven" knobs in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap "Up to eleven", also phrased as "these go to eleven", is an idiom from popular culture, coined in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, where guitarist Nigel Tufnel demonstrates a guitar amplifier whose volume knobs are marked from zero to eleven, instead of the usual zero to ten.